On Poni Old Road, Shen Qi temporarily left the examination area after completing his assessment.
"Totem Pokémon... came from special energy fluctuations."
The cause of Totem Pokémon's formation, and Lillie's independent investigation and persistence.
Those two clues could still offer some leads.
In the anime, over in the Mega Evolution World Line, the special squad Lillie formed was called the "Ultra Guardians," and it investigated Ultra Beasts that came from another world to cause trouble.
Since they acted alongside the main cast, the Ultra Recon Squad's members practically included all the captains from the four islands, running around and getting into scrapes while incidentally uncovering clues about Ultra Beasts.
In reality, the island captains were all busy to death. How could they have time to fool around with Lillie? Saving the world could not depend solely on eleven-year-old children.
Thus, although Lillie had good friends now, she could not possibly assemble the Ultra Guardians, and she did not even have a concept of "Ultra Beasts" yet.
Shen Qi opened a search engine. The only results related to "Ultra" were a few nicknames for divinely blessed Pokémon, or Granny Jiumei at the shrine on Island 2 in the Sevii Islands, who was also called Supreme Granny.
Then... whether in the anime or the games, Lillie's determination to investigate Ultra Beasts was connected not only to her childhood trauma, but also to her father Professor Mohn's disappearance inside an Ultra Wormhole.
In the games, the root of her mother Lusamine's obsession was also her husband's disappearance.
Searching for "Professor Mohn," Shen Qi found that he had already died.
Mohn, a renowned professor in the Alola Region, had suffered extreme mental overstimulation due to an abnormal cause in a field examination area, fallen into a coma, and ultimately suffered nervous exhaustion and brain